Category: Racing sailing craft

Home Built Boat Regatta meeting, Cirencester, 1st and 2nd September

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UK Home Built Boat Regatta

UK Home Built Boat Regatta meeting UK Home Built Boat Regatta meeting UK Home Built Boat Regatta meeting

Some snaps from previous UK HBBR meetings – Breton caps appear to be de rigeur!

I’ve been asked to tell you about the September UK Home Built Boat Regatta. Despite the name, it’s not really a regatta but is more like an American-style messabout, as many people will recognise from the photos.

The HBBR people are a loosely organised group who like to get together to discuss boatbuilding, sail their home-built boats and generally swap hints and tips. The next meeting is their National Rally at the Cotswold Water Park, on 1st and 2nd September.

I’d go if I wasn’t already booked to play my duet concertina in Suffolk. A range of canoes and small day boats are expected, including designs by Iain Oughtred, Paul Fisher, Conrad Natzio and Andrew Wolstenholme. The event is very informal with no trade stands and no catering (bring a picnic!), but there are basic camping facilities available on site. Just go along and bring your boat Continue reading “Home Built Boat Regatta meeting, Cirencester, 1st and 2nd September”

Grand yacht photos from The Yachtsman of more 100 years ago

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Polaris and Tangerine

Solent one-design class yachts Polaris and Tangerine, photographed by West & Son, Southsea. The photo appeared in a supplement to The Yachtsman number 357, Feb 1898

Japonica

Japonica, shot by the same photographers, presented in a supplement The Yachtsman number 562, January 1902

Mohawk

Mohawk photomezzotype by the London Stereoscopic Co, published in a supplement to The Yachtsman number 141, Dec 1893

Jeff Cole sent these grand old racing yacht images from Australia overnight. I’m afraid that Googling for these boats has not revealed much for me (I gather there are too many Solent one-designs to be sure about Polaris and Tangerine), but they’re great anyway. Just look at the detail you can see Continue reading “Grand yacht photos from The Yachtsman of more 100 years ago”

Flying 10s at the West Lancashire Yacht Club

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Flying 10

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Flying 10 racing yachts in the 1050s. The tiny keelboats were designed by Uffa Fox

Tonight’s pictures are of a fleet of Uffa Fox’s sweetly diminutive Flying 10 racing keelboats that were kept at the West Lancashire Yacht Club, Southport, in the 1950s. They make quite a sight, don’t they?

Brian Smith saw the post I put up earlier about a Flying 10 I saw and photographed at the Beale Park Boat Show, and was kind enough to send me the photos, together with the pages below from Click here to read more Continue reading “Flying 10s at the West Lancashire Yacht Club”